Most people don’t need to be concerned about the plague based on a recent death in Arizona. But take precautions if you live ...

Officials said the resident died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection. The risk to the public remains low.

The disease is rarely found in humans, so much so that only seven people are diagnosed with the severe lung infection annually in the United States.

Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

The word "plague" is often used to refer to any major disease epidemic or pandemic, or even to other undesirable events, such ...

The death in Coconino County, which includes Flagstaff, was the first recorded death from pneumonic plague since 2007, local ...

The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...

An Arizona resident has died from the plague as officials were probing whether a prairie dog die-off in the area was also ...

The Arizona Public Health Association is advising the public that there is no need to worry about the plague, despite one ...

Coconino County Health and Human Services recently received a report of a prairie dog die-off on private land northeast of ...

Officials in northern Arizona are detailing the steps that were taken after a person died from the Plague earlier in July.

A human has died of pneumonic plague in northern Arizona, Coconino County health officials said. The victim sought help at a Flagstaff hospital.